Home Alone IV: An Epilogue

So my family is back. I've learned a few lessons from them.


--The daisies on the dining room table have died. I hadn't noticed. I guess they need fresh water ever so often. Or should have been moved after they kicked the farm.

--Lettuce goes bad if you freeze it and then thaw it out. I did that while trying to keep it crispy. This is interesting to know, but I'm not sure how I can apply it to my life. ... Well, actually, I suppose I could try not to put lettuce in freezers.

--The rest of the family doesn't want to have any of the sherbet if there's only a half of a bowl left.

Home Alone III

I fixed one of the can openers!

My first step was to try to find a wrench, since I realized that the bolt holding on the blade of the can opener was loose. Unfortunately, I don't know where any of the tools in our house are, and all my family members were AWOL with their cellphones turned off. After a fruitless search, I realized that I could use the other can opener as a makeshift wrench, since it had two metal handles that could be clamped together. I unscrewed the first can opener with the second, and noticed that I needed a new, thicker washer. I had as much luck finding the washers as I had with the wrenches, so I bent a paper clip into a circle and bolted it in. And now it works! Time for some sherbet to celebrate.

We'll see if this series of Home Alone posts continues. They did get a fourth movie out of the series...

Home Alone II

The family's gone for the week, I have mostly canned food to eat, and neither of the two can openers in the house is working. I thought this only happened on sit-coms.

At least I still have my sherbet.

Stay tuned, folks. We'll be covering this problem as it develops.

Home Alone

My family has gone on a camping trip for the week, leaving me at home so that I can still to go to work. This means that I have the house entirely to myself.

The largest change in my routine is that I bought myself a gallon of sherbet today. Sadly, it's melting faster than I can eat it, so I'll have to stick it in the freezer rather than eat it all right now. Such is life.